Justin Langer’s close friend Adam Gilchrist has called for Cricket Australia to make a call on the future of the national men’s coach “very quickly”, to end a pattern of leaks that “will derail the summer”.
Langer, currently quarantining in Adelaide after the joint tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh, is under contract until the middle of 2022, with a Twenty20 World Cup, a home Ashes series and a tour of Pakistan all scheduled to take place in the meantime.
His tenure began amid the wreckage of the Newlands scandal and saw the team rebuild to a point where it reached the semi-finals of the 2019 ODI World Cup and also retained the Ashes in England for the first time since 2001. Former captain Steve Smith and ex-deputy David Warner were successfully reintegrated in that time.
Justin Langer. Credit:Getty Images
However, T20I results over the past 18 months have trailed off….
